Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin vs BLEASS Delay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin
This audio plugin acts as a noise gate for digital audio workstations, allowing users to suppress unwanted background noise from microphones or instruments. It offers fine-grained control over attack, release, and hold times, along with filtering to remove hum and hiss, ensuring subtle sounds are preserved.
- AUv3 compatible plugin
- Suppresses background noise
- Controllable attack, release, and hold
- High and low pass filtering
- Preserves subtle sounds
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This is an AUv3 compatible noise gate which can be used as a plugin with your favourite DAW such as Cubasis, Meteor, GarageBand or Auria. Anyone working in a live recording environment whether that be with a microphone or a high gain guitar effects will feel the need to suppress unwanted noise. This gated noise gate allows you to suppress any background noise over a specified level by a chosen suppression amount. This allows subtle sounds to still be heard as opposed to the brick wall approach. The effect has controllable attack, release and hold times as well as high and low pass filtering to eliminate main hum and hiss. This is one of a series of AUv3 compatible plugins available from 4Pockets;
BLEASS Delay
Enhance your audio mixes with a versatile delay and echo effect. This tool offers deep control over sound character with integrated frequency shifting and dual filters. Create dynamic soundscapes and classic modulation effects with its three LFOs.
- Adds depth and movement to mixes
- Integrated frequency shifter
- Dual filter for sound control
- Three LFOs for modulation
- Creates chorus and flanging effects
- Generates soundscapes and effects
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BLEASS Delay is the ideal tool for adding depth, movement and interest to your mixes. Whatever style of music you produce and whatever instruments you work with, its versatility and ease of use help you achieve perfect results with the minimum of fuss. Echoes are just the starting point. The integrated frequency shifter and dual filter give you deep control over the character and sound of every repeat, so you can achieve with a single plugin sound effects that would otherwise require a complete plugin stack and complex routing. BLEASS Delay also includes three LFOs, one each for the delay engine, the frequency shifter and the filters. As well as classic modulation effects such as chorus and flanging, these dedicated LFOs are ideal for creating exciting sound effects and epic, constantly-shifting soundscapes. FEATURES • Delay time synced to your host tempo (note values, including triplets) or set freely in milliseconds • Ping Pong mode with adjustable stereo width • Frequency shifter applied cumulatively to each repeat • Low pass and high pass filters: drag on the graph to set cutoff and resonance • Three LFOs, each with depth, rate and stereo phase offset up to ±180° • Feedback from a single echo to infinite repeats • Dry/Wet control • Preset manager with factory and user presets, plus a preset generator • Clear single-screen interface on iPad and iPhone WORKS WHERE YOU MAKE MUSIC BLEASS Delay is an AUv3 plugin. Load it in GarageBand, Logic Pro, AUM, Drambo, Koala Sampler, Loopy Pro or any other AUv3-compatible host. Your saved presets are available in all your hosts. A standalone app is also included. BLEASS Delay is also available for macOS, Linux and Windows (VST3 / AU / AAX). More information at www.bleass.com/delay
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BLEASS Delay at every 8 months against Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin's every 42 months. BLEASS Delay also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (51 vs 4). Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin costs $5.99 and BLEASS Delay $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BLEASS Delay holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BLEASS Delay has 51 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin's written reviews are positive against 81% of BLEASS Delay's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin ships an update every 42 months, BLEASS Delay every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin | BLEASS Delay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (51 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 81.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 51 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 42 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 4Pockets.com | BLEASS |
Customer experience
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin
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In-app purchases
Noise Gate AUv3 Plugin
No in-app purchases
BLEASS Delay
No in-app purchases
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